Datnoids with pimples? Now with pix...

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The first thing I thought of was datnoid disease.

But I thought that only ever occurred when members introduced new datnoids to the tank?

This is not the case with me. I haven't got a new datnoid in 18 months. If it is datnoid disease I have no idea what could have introduced it into my tank.

My water is always pristine. I do struggle to keep a stable ph though. Would that have any effect?
 
BIGgourami;1006958; said:
is you dat 16?
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I don't know what you are trying to say?
 
this pimple disease is not that common in tropical climates but i have heard of it. i heard that it is from the food and cleanliness of water. i have had different diseases such as white spot looking things and worms and i normally just use lots of sea salt and change the water from once in two weeks to once or twice a week and feed them with ghost shrimps as they are easy to digest.
 
The "Datnoid disease" was a term I think was coined by me when I lost a very large portion of my collection a few years back. The source were some New Guinea datnoids that came looking fine but later developed those pimples, sores and ulcers that got to all my other Datnoids and even other fishes.

Nothing I used worked and we are talking all kind of medicines, water changes, UV sterilizers, ozonizers, etc. The one thing I noticed was that as some animals died off, some of the stronger ones recovered. I started separating Datnoids in groups of 5 or 6 depending how many tanks I had and putting them in brand new water with oversized filtration and a lot of heat and salt. I kept them at 85 degrees minimum with some tanks at 88 and a liberal amount of salt. I never measured how much salt I was putting and can't even tell you a correct measure but I started adding 1 cup of sea salt per 50 gallons and then I just never measured again.

It is devastating and has several agents involved (environmental, protozoan and bacterial). I rebuilt my collection since then but never with the same amount and sizes that I used to haveand that's why I have kept all my datnoids in separate small groups that I can monitor easier and keep the water quality in much better standing.

Ivan
 
Thanks guys,

The sores seem to have improved overnight. They are not a reddish color anymore but they have not reduced in size. At least they aren't getting worse.
 
My dat has the exact same lumps (pimples) we quarentined him 3 days ago to start treatment and the lumps are going down, along with these he was also rubbing a lot against objects in the tank, we have got the water temp up to 80 degrees and are treating with sterazin which is a 2 week treatment.

Wow this thread has really worried me now :(
 
alfon76;1007912; said:
The "Datnoid disease" was a term I think was coined by me when I lost a very large portion of my collection a few years back. The source were some New Guinea datnoids that came looking fine but later developed those pimples, sores and ulcers that got to all my other Datnoids and even other fishes.

Nothing I used worked and we are talking all kind of medicines, water changes, UV sterilizers, ozonizers, etc. The one thing I noticed was that as some animals died off, some of the stronger ones recovered. I started separating Datnoids in groups of 5 or 6 depending how many tanks I had and putting them in brand new water with oversized filtration and a lot of heat and salt. I kept them at 85 degrees minimum with some tanks at 88 and a liberal amount of salt. I never measured how much salt I was putting and can't even tell you a correct measure but I started adding 1 cup of sea salt per 50 gallons and then I just never measured again.

It is devastating and has several agents involved (environmental, protozoan and bacterial). I rebuilt my collection since then but never with the same amount and sizes that I used to haveand that's why I have kept all my datnoids in separate small groups that I can monitor easier and keep the water quality in much better standing.

Ivan
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Thanks for the info mate. The problem I am having at the moment is figuring out how the disease would have been introduced into my tank? I have not added any new datnoids to my collection in 18 months or so.

Is there anything else to your knowledge that can bring this disease on?

Do the sores in the pix I provided look like the disease your datnoids obtained?

Thanks everyone.
 
sazzy34;1008761; said:
They look exactly the same as my dats.
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Is this datnoid a new addition?

Or have you added any datnoids that could have brought this disease and infected your datnoid?
 
weh have had this dat about 3 months, we added a new dat about 6 weeks ago but that one is very stable and has shown no signs of anything.
 
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